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Abstract

The mental lexicon is a complex structure organised in terms of phonology, semantics and syntax, among other levels. In this thesis I propose that this structure can be explained in terms of the pressures acting on it: every aspect of the organisation of the lexicon is an adaptation ultimately related to the function of language as a tool for human communication, or to the fact that language has to be learned by subsequent generations of people. A collection of methods, most of which are applied to a Spanish speech corpus, reveal structure at different levels of the lexicon. ...

@phdthesis{tamariz05phd,
  author={Monica Tamariz},
  title={Exploring the Adaptive Structure of the Mental Lexicon},
  year={2005},
  school={Department of theoretical and applied linguistics, Univerisity of Edinburgh},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/tamariz05phd.html}
}